Tanya Fox, editor, and Brooke Smith, managing editor, are the editorial team behind CardMaker magazine. When not reviewing design submissions and planning future issues of the magazine and pattern books, they can often be found exploring websites for inspiration and visiting their favorite local coffee shop.

They hope you’ll visit the blog often as they share card-making tips, designer features, paper-crafting techniques, project inspiration and a peek at life inside the CardMaker office.

This is my craft room which doubles as my home office. I love that I get to enjoy natural sunlight in here. I use many standard bins and shelves for organizing and making the best use of the space.

I picked up the white shelving units on Craigslist for next to nothing. They were from a business office that needed them gone. Hooray! To the left of my desk are two of the shelving units. These hold most of my paper, red rubber stamps, clear stamps, embellishments and books. Inside the unit is a rolling kitchen cart from Ikea, which I use for my Cameo, Cricut and sewing machines.

This is where I spend most of my creative time. My favorite thing in this room is my standing craft table from ImprovementsCatalog.com. This table is used for all of my creative projects including photography and video recording. If you look closely, you will see a selfie stick attached to my ribbon holder. That is where I attach my camera to record project videos. My craft table stores embellishments, inks, tape, glue, ribbon, twine, brushes, portable die-cutting machine, watercolor tools and more. My Roskog cart from Ikea fits perfectly under the table. The shelves next to my table include markers, paints, watercolors, colored pencils, mixed media tools and other supplies.

This room came together piece by piece over the past few years. Once I found those shelves, everything fell into place.